Joomla Tutorials

One of the things you expect from a modern content management system is a lot of flexibility. Well, Joomla doesn't really give you a lot when it comes to placing modules around your website. Modules are the little bits of information you place around your main content area like menus, sidebars, and footers.

In this video, I'm going to show you an amazing module manager that will transform how you place modules around the outside of your content in your Joomla website using Advanced Module Manager.

I've used this extension for years, and it is terrific. So let's go!

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It's one thing to carve the date in stone when you're beautifying a town in rural Indiana, but it's another thing if the footer of your Joomla website still says 2015. Well this is a problem we can easily solve. 

In this video, I want to talk to you about a fantastic plugin from Regular Labs called Sourcerer.  Sourcerer allows you to add code to Articles and Modules in Joomla including: PHP, CSS, and HTML. 

I've used this consistently for the last 10 years, and it is a terrific plugin, so let's go!

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Are you using Fabrik with Joomla? Are you familiar with the Fabrik Map Visualization?

Ok, Let's say you have a whole list of people/things or a membership list and there are addresses from those lists that you want to illustrate on a map. How can we do that?

It's super easy with a Fabrik Visualization, and I'm going to show you how.

Let’s go!

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To HTTP or to HTTPS your Joomla Site? There is no longer any debate on this age-old question, the evidence out there definitely says you should use HTTPS on all your websites, Joomla or otherwise, even if they don’t handle sensitive communications. Not only has HTTPS become a requirement for many of the new web browsers and progressive web apps, it provides security and data integrity for both your Joomla website and your users' personal information.

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Replacing the content on one article or even two articles on your Joomla website is pretty simple, but what if you have to replace the plugin code on over a thousand articles in your Joomla site? How would you do it? 

In this video, I'm going to show you how I replaced the plug-in code in over a thousand Joomla articles with a simple component from Regular Labs called DB Replacer.

Let's find out!

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A common complaint for many Joomla users is the editor that comes packaged with Joomla TinyMCE. In general, it’s a great editor, but Joomla Content Editor (JCE) makes it even easier for you to edit/add content with Joomla.

This blog post will show you how to install JCE and set it as the default Editor in Joomla. Also see how to allow different users to use a different editor than the default.

TinyMCE has improved the lives of content editors all over the globe. Joomla Content Editor (JCE) makes it even better.

Let’s get started.

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Sometimes you want to remove the /index.php from after your domain name or the category ID/article ID from your Category Blog or Category List menu items.

This blog post will explain how to do both.

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The default date format in Joomla is based on United Kingdom English. Not everyone wants this date format.

If you’ve ever wanted to change the date format in Joomla from day month year to US date standard of month day, year, then this is the post for you. Let’s get started.

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Today we're going to be talking about a very important topic which is two factor authentication inside of Joomla websites. 

So we know that over 80% of website breaches come through passwords, but how can we avoid this on our own Joomla website?

Well, we can turn on two-factor authentication.  What that means is that we'll have a username, a password, and then a randomly generated code produced from something that is on your person physically (ex: cell phone).

Joomla offers two ways to enable two factor authentication:

1. Google Authenticator running on a mobile device
2. Yubikeys that are plugged into a USB port on your Mac or PC

Let's take a look at these options!

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Two reasons you might need to access configuration.php are:

1. How to find your Database Credentials
2. How to set Error Reporting to Maximum

We can help you with that.

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It happens. One day you visit your website, and there’s this weird error across the top of the screen throwing off your layout and making your site look horrible.

We can help you with that!

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There’s nothing more frustrating than going into an article to make a small change and then when you save it, you find that some code that was in the article has stripped. 

Here’s a great way to get around that by using the {loadposition} plugin to prevent code stripping in Joomla.

What we’re going to do is set up a custom HTML module with the code and then load it through the article. That way, people can edit the article with the editor on and not worry about the code stripping.

Let’s get started.

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Search Engine Optimization (SEO) in Joomla has always been a bit of a crapshoot.

Well not anymore!  As I just said, it's sometimes really hard to get your seo perfected in your Joomla website.

In this video, I'm going to introduce you to a component called Route 66 that works just like the amazing Yoast plug-in in WordPress.

It really is unbelievable, so let's go!

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Every Joomla website has the same URL to get to the backend Control Panel. This means bots can attempt to login to your website easily unless you take precautions to block it.

By adding password protection to the /administrator directory, you can help ward off attacks and hack attempts to your website.

It’s easy to set up. I’ll show you how.

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If you have a super long page of content, it’s nice to be able to break it up into visually appealing pieces so it can be consumed more easily. Sure, there are lots of third-party extensions that do this but why use them when you can use Joomla core.

Joomla core’s Page Break Plugin breaks up long pages of content with accordions, tabs, or “pages.”

For simple applications, you don’t have to add a third-party extension. Learn how to use Page Break and its limitations.

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